How do I disable my Windows Startup sound?

I have a just recently purchased sony vaio laptop, and it plays a little jingle as soon as I turn the computer on, before it starts booting up. This happens when my computer is set on mute, and I don't see any options on that window to disable that specific sound. I'm going to be using my laptop in college next year, and I don't want to create a distraction in the classroom. Do you have any suggestions for me?

Hold F2 while the computers booting and you'll enter BIOS mode. From there go to advanced and turn off the logo thing. Hope this helps.

Thanks. This worked like a charm. It is (was) annoying as h*ll to have my laptop blast the Windows logon tune each time I logged on.

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Thanks. This worked like a charm. It is (was) annoying as h*ll to have my laptop blast the Windows logon tune each time I logged on.

Good thing my automated feedback poster can do simple math! Bahaha. 19+16=34.

Do you know a way to turn the thing off if the Start menu's Control Panel button is not there (admin-disabled)?

i have some problems for video encoding. i have using imtoo encoder but they not work completely because restart my computer. what can i do please tel me

I changed my start up sound to an edited speech of illidan from the warcraft burnng cruscade movie thing. It's a wav file just like the orignal start up sound. Well when i turn my computer on, it works....but only plays like the first 4 seconds of it. Is there a time limit on how long the startup sound has to be? And can i change it?

The sound was pretty annoying and usually would disturb my sleeping child.

If I were to search at on Windows help, it would have to taken me years to find this information
Thanks for the putting it on the web, easy to find over google.

hey umm i have a prob with my comp.. it plays random music on the startup and keeps on continuing till i turn the sound off! how do i make it go away!!!?

the problems is my windows startup sounds is disable.i already activate the sound option in the control panel->windows default scheme sounds..can you help me?i use Intel pentium Dualcore 2,66 gHz,windows XP Service pack 1.....you can email me at miftahhur_rahman@yahoo.com....thanks...

hi my problem is how to change the logon/logoff sound.

I did exactly as you said to try to disable the startup sound on Windows XP... it didn't work for me. I tried it 3 times. Can you help?

Hi,

I tried the steps those are provided above before itself. Here the thing is different. In my laptop I don't get start up or shut down sound evenif sound settings are correct in control panel.

Is there any way to get it back on to its normal functioning?

XP and Vista both have C:\Windows\Media.

There you'll finf the .wavs labeled for all Windows sounds.

Simply copy the ones you want to change to a backup folder, then replace the one's in the media folder with .wav's of your choice.

Thanks for the tip - easily found, saved a lot of time.

I wanted to stop the sounds on both startup and shutdown. I'm guessing most people would want to stop the shutting down sounds too? So, also disable Exit Windows and Windows Logoff.

Best wishes,

Steve

I'm having a different kind of problem. We just installed a fresh copy of MediaCenter2002 +SP3(hard drive failed and used OEM disk to reinstall) and the sound works fine once we're at the desktop. The startup and shutdown sounds are never played however. In control panel, I can select EXIT WINDOWS and play the sound with the > arrow.. and can do this for START WINDOWS too.. but still the sounds never play on boot or shutdown! I don't know why this bothers me so much, but I'd like to fix it! I've tried = Kelly's Korner - line 211 - Restore Startup and Shutdown Sounds
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm... and that didn't work. ANY OTHER IDEAS you might have before I pull my hair out???

i know how to change the startup sound in xp but it only plays the first few seconds. How do i get it to play the whole song?

hi thanks for all the info that u have provided in this page it helped me a lot .. thank u very much

I had my PC cleaned and lost all my drivers. Can I get them back? ( Windows XP) Jim

Thank you for posting this- it made it very easy to get that irritating noise off my puter. you rock!

Dear All,i have a problom,im running an internet cafe,problom is sound automatically disabled in all systems,then i restart it its working for few minutes.please help me...

If you can't quickly turn the sound off when you want to, just plug a headphone set or jack adapter into the headphone port to silence your computer. I keep a one inch jack Y-adapter that I use with my cell phone head set and external speakers readily available for quick use.

on my desktop I managed to turn off that awful scratching sound when my dialup was connecting. Forgot how. Please help me do this on my new refurbished laptop without a manual. I just found your site and think it is very nice. An old lady trying to learn more about my computer. Thanks so much.

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I thank you muchly for curing my Startup Sound Embarassment Syndrome! You and all the humans who take the time to help people you don't even know are my heroes.

In win 7 just right click the sound icon in the taskbar-click Sound-and uncheck Play Windows Startup Sound. Also there to change or disable other sounds